Groundbreaking in North Bergen for ‘beautiful, quality housing’

Rendering of Avalon, a development planned for 56st St. and Kennedy Blvd in North Bergen.

Roughly 100 people recently attended the groundbreaking of the township’s newest development, a 164-room building on Kennedy Boulevard with street-level retail space.

“We are taking a long unused site and turning it into beautiful, quality housing, while adding retail stores on the Boulevard,” North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco said of the new Avalon Bay Communities development at the groundbreaking held June 15.

The new AvalonBay Communities development, located on Kennedy Boulevard near 79th Street, will include underground parking for residents and 17,000 square feet of ground-level retail space. The building is slated to open in spring of 2012.